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[Dick Cheeseburger]

48 minutes ago, Yoss said:

ALD 872B, RM 1872.

Brilliant, thanks! 

[busmansholiday]

20 hours ago, Cookiesouwest said:

At least it will be saved. Any damage they might have done rescuing it, pales into insignificance given its overall condition. Plus its getting fully restored.

Another one gets to live

 

Fucking sadly. 

[greengartside]

Love the sound of a National. That’s an awesome video.

[Metal Guru]

On 16/05/2022 at 17:11, Dick Longbridge said:

Go on then... who can identify this Routemaster?

 

The 159 to Brixton station.

[Six-cylinder]

This was a surprise, yesterday Mrs6C navigated us the backway to Llandeilo on the single track roads and this was just parked next to the road.

[Vantman]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

This was a surprise, yesterday Mrs6C navigated us the backway to Llandeilo on the single track back roads and this was just parked next to the road.

AEC Regal---1953?

[busmansholiday]

Ex BEA, been a mobile home for a long time. Good to see it still around. Was NLP650. 

[RoadworkUK]

I passed a pleasingly elderly (90s?)  tri-axle Jonckheere decker on my way home from Twickenham yesterday. Operated by Jeakins.

[LightBulbFun]

6 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

This was a surprise, yesterday Mrs6C navigated us the backway to Llandeilo on the single track roads and this was just parked next to the road.

Oh thats very cool its a London Transport BEA RF!  http://www.countrybus.org/rf/RF6.htm

(its a shame its been robbed of its number plate *grumble* )

[Mr Pastry]

5 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

Ex BEA, been a mobile home for a long time. Good to see it still around. Was NLP650. 

I might actually have travelled on that one in my youth, as my school used to hire coaches from the infamous Continental Pioneer of Richmond.   Most of the fleet was RTs but they had a few of those ex BEA in exactly that colour scheme.

[busmansholiday]

We'll stay in Porstmouth and Southsea and have a look at the other main operator, Southdown.  They operated the longer distance services and had an agreement with the council in terms of local pickups and set downs, as well as two depots, Hilsea and Churchill Road (near the centre which was for the coaches).

So, 800 was a a 1956 Leyland PD2/12 fitted with East Lancs H59RD bodywork and here's a view of that rear end and the platform doors.

I didn't realise then, but I was to own a 'H' reg Alpine with the vinyl roof in that colour a few years later.

 "We're proud to be part of of the National Bus Company,  together we can really go places" is what that advert on the front of 420, a convertible open top Northern Counties bodied Leyland Titan PD3/4 says. They were better known as "Queen Marys" and were the staple Southdown double decker of the period. It had already lost its gold fleetnames for the standard NBC font and the registration would subsequently re-appear on various Stagecoach buses in later years.

The NBC livery didn't look as well on these, as you can see on this 1966 delivery.

The last batch of Queen Marys were delivered in 1967 and had panorama windows, here's 356.

 The NBC influence started on the double deckers fairly shortly after the NBC was formed, and Southdown started to receive batches of ECW bodied VRs. Chod a plenty on this view of 525.

This isn't in Portsmouth, it's photographed in Sheffield at the SUT depot (they were part of BET so ended up in the NBC). There were regular weekend specials from military bases around the country for service men who were given weekend leave, so finding a Southdown coach wasn't unusual, a Bristol  RESL with a bus seated body by Marshalls certainly was though.

Northern Counties were a favorite of Southdown and they had these unusual Leopards as well. Nice HA van,

and another (or the same) HA in this crappy winter shot of a very nice Harrington bodied Leopard.

Southdown did have your more usual Plaxton bodied Leopards, here's 1210 showing its illuminated front name.

Finally their tow wagon, was like Corporations a cut down TD Titan.   I believe this is the now preserved EUF184, a TD5.  Note the Southdown on the top of the radiator.

 

 

[High Jetter]

Most of those have UF or CD registrations, from Brighton. Their head office might have been there?

[busmansholiday]

25 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Most of those have UF or CD registrations, from Brighton. Their head office might have been there?

Yes, Southdown were based there. Portsmouth was as the western end of their area, Hants and Dorset took over after that. 

[martc]

One of my favourite continental coaches - a Skoda 706. Stood outside the Kino International in Berlin, DDR. The film is from France, 'The Corsican Son', directed by Francois Villiers. It's about a French worker who discovers he has an illegitimate son in Corsica and following some setbacks he finally accepts him as his son. Apparently a storyline acceptable to the DDR government.

[AnnoyingPentium]

This is the magnificent* steed that took us to Ardgowan today.

Quite comfy and goes like fuck (from a passenger's POV).

[J W Pepper]

Can anybody elaborate on what type of Leyland this is?

[J W Pepper]

[J W Pepper]

[J W Pepper]

What Leyland is this?

[J W Pepper]

I'm guessing these are Leyland buses, but what model?

[Leyland Worldmaster]

27 minutes ago, J W Pepper said:

What Leyland is this?

 

22 minutes ago, J W Pepper said:

I'm guessing these are Leyland buses, but what model?

All are Leyland Atlanteans. I think they all have East Lancashire Coachbuilders bodywork. 😎

[warch]

I love it’s happy expression.

[Vantman]

5 hours ago, J W Pepper said:

Can anybody elaborate on what type of Leyland this is?

@J W Pepper Leyland Titan PD3/4 1959?

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Some shite spotted by an agent yesterday. 

 

[Yoss]

10 hours ago, J W Pepper said:

What Leyland is this?

So what year is this one? It's just that apart from the windscreen and lights the body looks practically identical to the entire Southampton City Transport fleet that were delivered from 1968 to 1982 and remained in service until 2005.there were detail differences that us cranks could spot but to the general public they were identical. But the reg on that one suggests it is much older. 

They were crap bodies but judging by that photo East Lancs managed to flog it virtually unchanged for 20 years. Nothing* to do with being cheap I guess. 

[LightBulbFun]

14 minutes ago, Yoss said:

So what year is this one? It's just that apart from the windscreen and lights the body looks practically identical to the entire Southampton City Transport fleet that were delivered from 1968 to 1982 and remained in service until 2005.there were detail differences that us cranks could spot but to the general public they were identical. But the reg on that one suggests it is much older. 

They were crap bodies but judging by that photo East Lancs managed to flog it virtually unchanged for 20 years. Nothing* to do with being cheap I guess. 

I was wondering about that myself, Reg comes back 1963

but it looks surprisingly "modern" and square for a 1963 vehicle, im used to rear engined buses of that age being a lot more rounded in the corners etc if that makes sense!

so I wonder if its been re-bodied or something such

 

[Inspector Morose]

I think Bolton was the first recipient of that style of East Lancs body who went on to reproduce basically the same design for the next 20-odd years.

[Yoss]

Thanks. As LBF says it looks really modern for 1963. The people of Bolton must have thought they had arrived in the future. 

[dollywobbler]

Hope this works. AEC Regent V single decker.

https://twitter.com/HubNutVids/status/1528376021673721861?t=_IG7HnTigE8KKx41iUXG_g&s=19

[J W Pepper]

16 hours ago, Yoss said:

Thanks. As LBF says it looks really modern for 1963. The people of Bolton must have thought they had arrived in the future. 

Bolton is a nice area and back then people used to come from all over the country to go to the market.

The trolley buses were a good design but they got scrapped after a few years. Perhaps someone can shed a light on this?